Was the EVER a happy Middle Earth? - Page 2

bropous · 01-17-2002, 08:30 PM

I guess there was NEVER peace in the dungeons of Angband and Utumno.....

Michael Martinez · 01-17-2002, 10:46 PM

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Originally posted by Kevin McIntyre
As far as fading goes. Once the Sun rose ME was always decaying, despite the best efforts by the Elves and those silly rings of theirs.

If I recall correctly, Tolkien wrote (someplace I cannot recall, unfortunately) that, after the Rings were made, the Elves experienced Time's decay at a rate of about 10 years for every 1,000.

Kevin McIntyre · 01-17-2002, 10:52 PM

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Originally posted by Michael Martinez

If I recall correctly, Tolkien wrote (someplace I cannot recall, unfortunately) that, after the Rings were made, the Elves experienced Time's decay at a rate of about 10 years for every 1,000.

I read a similar quote somewhere. however I thought it was in one of your essays. And it was my understanding that not only the elves experienced this time lapse, but the local environment as well.

Tar-Elenion · 01-17-2002, 11:00 PM

It is suggested in PoME, Appendix on Languages, The Languages at the End of the Third Age, paragrph 12.

markedel · 01-24-2002, 09:44 PM

Well Tolkien assumes there'll be a messianic age so that'll be peaceful, but the elves fate is unknown.

01-17-2002, 08:30 PM	#21
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	I guess there was NEVER peace in the dungeons of Angband and Utumno..... __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-17-2002, 11:00 PM	#24
Tar-Elenion Enting Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 71	It is suggested in PoME, Appendix on Languages, The Languages at the End of the Third Age, paragrph 12. __________________ Tar-Elenion Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.

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